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MOBISYS
2007
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
MobiSteer: using steerable beam directional antenna for vehicular network access
In this work, we investigate the use of directional antennas and beam steering techniques to improve performance of 802.11 links in the context of communication between a moving v...
Vishnu Navda, Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Kannan Dha...
INFOCOM
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Drive-By Localization of Roadside WiFi Networks
—We use a steerable beam directional antenna mounted on a moving vehicle to localize roadside WiFi access points (APs), located outdoors or inside buildings. Localizing APs is an...
Anand Prabhu Subramanian, Pralhad Deshpande, Jie G...
MOBICOM
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Pushing the envelope of indoor wireless spatial reuse using directional access points and clients
Recent work demonstrates that directional antennas have significant potential to improve wireless network capacity in indoor environments. This paper provides a broader exploratio...
Xi Liu, Anmol Sheth, Michael Kaminsky, Konstantina...
MOBISYS
2009
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
R2D2: regulating beam shape and rate as directionality meets diversity
We design, implement, and evaluate a vehicular communication system that improves uplink connectivity through multi-lobe beam pattern switching on a smart antenna. Directionality ...
Kishore Ramachandran, Ravi Kokku, Karthikeyan Sund...
INFOCOM
2010
IEEE
13 years 8 months ago
Distributed Coordination with Deaf Neighbors: Efficient Medium Access for 60 GHz Mesh Networks
Multi-gigabit outdoor mesh networks operating in the unlicensed 60 GHz "millimeter (mm) wave" band, offer the possibility of a quickly deployable broadband extension of t...
Sumit Singh, Raghuraman Mudumbai, Upamanyu Madhow